One Computer

gga

There is only one computer in the world now, and that computer is the
World Wide Web. Developers must know that, understand that and believe
that.

Software does not matter unless it is written to run on that one
computer. Know that too.

I have been saying this for awhile now, and some people have had some
trouble understanding what I mean. I am not saying that the only thing
that is to be written must be web applications. What I am trying to
say is that if you are writing software it must be able to be used by
applications and software that does run on the Web.

If your software does not, then it will simply be ignored. That’s not
malicious or intended as a criticism of your code, I’m sure it’s very
good. Think about it this way: as OS/2 faded away any software that
only ran on OS/2 simply stopped mattering. This is just happening
again, except all operating systems are fading away, replaced with
that one computer.

So, if you have some amazing idea for writing some beautiful video
processing code in the current functional-language-of-the-moment, you
must have a plan for making that code useful to the web otherwise no
one will ever use your code.